If you've been fortunate enough not to have heard of Barbie Kardashian until now, then I am sorry to make you aware of his existence. Born Gabriel Alejandro Gentile, he is a trans-identified man who has indeed legally changed his name to Barbie Kardashian, but I cannot bring myself to refer to him as such. There are more recent images available of this man as well, but I also cannot bring myself to share them, as I generally make a point of not sharing content that I find disturbing (and yes, I find the new images even more disturbing than the photo above). However, I do feel the need to talk about Gentile because of what I think his situation says about gender ideology and the contemptible apathy of society.
Gentile is a dangerous and psychopathic young man who has just been released from prison in Ireland, where he served only two and a half years for threatening to rape, torture, and murder his mother. After sentencing, he was initially placed in a women's prison but was transferred out a short time later for posing a threat to inmates and staff. Before this, Gentile had over a dozen other convictions for threats and physical and sexual assaults.
How did he come to be this way? Reduxx provides a good summary:
As a child, Kardashian was the victim of sustained abuse at the hands of his father, who also directed depraved abuses at his mother. His father had prevented his mother from breastfeeding or holding him when he cried, and physically and emotionally abused him throughout childhood.
Eventually, his violent father initiated his son in participating in the abuse of his mother.
At age 8, his mother fled with him to a safe house, but Kardashian was already extremely violent and directed much of the abuse towards her. Just two years later, Kardashian was taken into special care after carrying out a brutal attack against his mother. The woman was forced to move to another part of the country as Kardashian continued to express an urge to rape and murder her, including detailed plots of how he’d torture her.
According to court documents from 2018, at 13 years of age, Kardashian attacked the female driver who had been transporting him from court after appearing on a bench warrant. Without warning, Kardashian grabbed the woman from the backseat, tearing off her eyelids and ripping out clumps of her hair. He later expressed disappointment that he hadn’t been able to murder the woman outright.
After his release at the beginning of this month, Gentile spoke to Gript columnist Paddy O’Gorman. During the 20-minute interview, he expressed his desire to track down and murder his parents. He also said that he enjoys hurting people, that he needs people to view him as a woman, and that he will use women’s public bathrooms.
Both Reduxx (of course) and Gript have been referring to Gentile with male pronouns, but they are among the few outlets to do so. After Googling “Barbie Kardashian” and clicking on some of the top stories, I quickly found The Irish Times, Daily Star, Yahoo News UK, Irish Examiner, and Irish Independent all referring to this deranged man with a sexually violent past and murder fantasies with female pronouns, and I’m sure the examples of this are endless.
All I can ask, looking at this completely demented situation, is why? Who is it for that these outlets and journalists are pretending that a man who is sexually violent against women, including his own mother, is a woman?
It isn’t for normal, sane, and sensible people, because the majority of such people would have no problem reading Gentile referred to with male pronouns. Normies, let’s call them, who generally don’t buy into the more extreme aspects of gender ideology but who probably are okay with sometimes using opposite-sex pronouns for certain trans-identified people, would certainly not express outrage at media outlets for referring to Gentile accurately as a man. So, it’s not for them.
It's certainly not for trans-identified people as a whole because stories like this, and specifically referring to men like Gentile as a woman, only serve to erode support for the trans cause. I can only imagine how many people have completely turned against the movement because of this. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it didn't immediately wake the whole world up to this madness when Gentile was initially placed in a women's prison. That speaks a lot to the apathy I find so disconcerting about all of this, and I'll say more on that in a bit.
It definitely isn't for Gentile himself that the media is doing this. Most journalists and editors probably regard him with a mixture of fear and disgust—not any kind of respect that might lead them to honor his “preferred pronouns.” Nor would he have the social power to wage a cancellation war against them. And if anyone is doing it out of a sense of sympathy for the boy he once was, then they are horribly misguided. It's obvious that his trans identity, along with his personality disorders and psychopathy, is a manifestation of his severe childhood abuse. Why, if you were trying to have some sympathy and understanding for what led him to be who he is today, would you “affirm” one of the rotten fruits of his rotten past?
Certainly, my heart hurts when I read about a baby boy who was not fed or comforted, and who was so horrifically abused. When I had my own baby and I saw how helpless and vulnerable she was, I had intrusive thoughts about abused and neglected infants. To think about a case that actually happened is painful. To see the result as a sexually violent young man who dresses up as a sexualized and terrifyingly clown-like caricature of a woman makes me uncomfortably aware of the corrupting power of evil. To the extent that I have sympathy for Gentile, I would never pretend that his miserable life's trajectory has turned him into anything akin to a woman.
But what outweighs my sympathy is my horror at what he is now—a dangerous psychopath that needs to be reported on with accuracy. He is not a she, and his requests to be referred to as such should fall on deaf ears. However, like I said, it isn't for his sake, at least not his sake alone, that the media is doing this. They are doing it out of fear of the numerous other psychopaths who push the radical trans cause. Militant, radical trans activists are driven by a dark psychology that I delved into in my very first post on this Substack and which I still think is easily one of the most important pieces I've ever written.
Many people fear this dark psychology and don't want it directed their way, and understandably so. Accusations of bigotry, intolerance, and transphobia can be incredibly damaging. Nobody wants to be brutally canceled for upsetting the trans mob, as they have seen it happen to so many others. They've seen reputations trashed and livelihoods destroyed for failures to affirm—and sometimes even to adequately celebrate—trans identities. A lot of people have very good reasons for staying quiet on this issue and for trying to play nice with the radical trans activists.
But the capitulation and downright cowardice has to stop somewhere, and at the very least, it could stop short of referring to a twisted and sexually violent man, a man who gleefully shares his desire to rape and murder his mother, as a woman. At the very least.
But it hasn’t stopped there. We are so scared of these psychopathic activists that our media even refers to such a man as a woman, and I am strongly reminded of C. S. Lewis’ prescient warning about “men without chests.” As I explained previously in a piece on Realty’s Last Stand, these are individuals devoid of honor and virtue who have lost all sense of the right, moral, and good. What is ultimately concerning is that “men without chests” are subject to the whims of what Lewis terms “the conditioners,” those who would reshape human nature and values according to their own will. In other words: psychopaths.
Our media referring to Gabriel Alejandro Gentile as a woman has nothing to do with respect, empathy, or even social niceties. It is a sign that we have already slipped down a very dark path toward the kind of psychopathic totalitarian dystopia that Lewis warned about. While I don't think time has necessarily run out to correct course (what has happened in the United States, for example, is very promising), the fact that so many are still allowing gender ideologues to condition them into referring to “Barbie Kardashian” as a woman is not a good sign. The rest of us have to get over our contemptible apathy and find our chests again.